– Andrew Zimmern was in Dallas over the weekend eating barbecue. Cooper’s and Woodshed Smokehouse in Fort Worth and Odom’s and Lockhart Smokehouse in Dallas will be featured on his show Bizarre Foods America.

– Since last week’s Rolling Stone article on animal abuse at factory farms and the antibiotics ban that will go into affect soon, the beef industry has gone on the defensive. Here’s their explanation on where all those antibiotics go, and their indictment of the RS article calling it “trash journalism.”

– Herman “Pig” Pickens was charged with murder in the killing of an employee at MoJo BBQ in Jacksonville, Florida.

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